Wake Forest Wins 1st Bowl Game of Season

Posted: Sat 3:04 PM, Dec 20, 2008

WASHINGTON (AP) - Riley Skinner found a perfect way to obliterate the miserable memory of his painful performance against Navy earlier this season.

Skinner went 11-for-11 and threw the go-ahead touchdown pass to Ben Wooster with 7:52 left, leading Wake Forest to a 29-19 comebackvictory over the Midshipmen in the inaugural EagleBank Bowl to open the bowl season Saturday.

The previous school record for accuracy was a 12-for-14 effort by Mike McGlamry in 1975. Skinner added a completion on a conversion attempt.

He finished with 166 yards passing and was named the game's MostValuable Player.

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